Ádám Makkai

Two-time Kossuth Prize-winning Hungarian poet, linguist, literary translator, professor at the University of Chicago. He is a recipient of the Order of St. Stephen of Hungary.

“Ninety-six percent of the world’s printed literature is now written in English, and the desire and existential imperative to publish in English haunts Western Europe as much as it does Hungary or Romania. The fact that someone has written a work of literary theory in French or in German, once so prestigious, makes almost no difference outside the narrow confines of the country.”